Dead code?

[hickst]

Unless I misunderstand raise_for_status (and I might since I've never used it), this line will never be executed:

line 243

and this line will only be executed when the returned status is 200:

line 240

Both, as a result of the preceding raise_for_status:

line 238

[pothiers]

Maybe so. I don't raise_for_status catches all kinds of errors. Maybe only client errors (4xx). I vaguely remember it missing server (5xx) status codes. Maybe.